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In this yearlong course students will write about six major ancient civilizations—Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Greece, and Rome—while working progressively through the nine IEW units and a variety of stylistic techniques. This Student Book includes assignments, blank outlines, source texts, checklists, vocabulary cards and quizzes, and grammar practice. The Teacher's Manual gives tips for creatively teaching each lesson, hints for grammar instruction, and more. These lessons are designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style seminar. Levels A & B, Grades 3-5 & 6-8. From Institute for Excellence in Writing.

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In this yearlong course students will write about six major ancient civilizations—Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Greece, and Rome—while working progressively through the nine IEW units and a variety of stylistic techniques. This Student Book includes assignments, blank outlines, source texts, checklists, vocabulary cards and quizzes, and grammar practice. These lessons are designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style seminar, either live or on DVD. Note: The purchase of this book entitles its owner to a free download of the following: Student Resource Notebook; (Instructions for download are located inside front cover of book.) Perfect for homeschoolers, homeschool co-ops, tutors, and hybrid schools, this theme-based writing curriculum supports parents and teachers in teaching writing to elementary and early middle school students (grades 3–6).

From Institute for Excellence in Writing. Note: If you wish to purchase a Teacher's Edition, it is recommended that you purchase the Student/Teacher Combo (Item #2235).

(This is the student book only, designed to be used with an extra student.)

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A complete set of student materials for extra students who are watching the video course in a group or classroom, including a 3-ring student binder with eight tabs for organizing student work and a packet of handouts with source texts, checklists, and more!

For use with the Structure & Style for Students Level B year 1 Course #1268.

 From Institute For Excellence in Writing (IEW).

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Teaching the Classics, Second Edition [DVD Seminar & Workbook]

Our premier literature seminar for parents and teachers, Teaching the Classics will revolutionize the way you and your students read books.

By using short stories as the models and the Socratic approach as the method, the authors systematically prepare you to teach character, plot, theme, and other elements of fiction and literary analysis. You can quickly equip your children with literary study tools that can then be used easily on longer works. Skills gained through this program will allow you to study any piece of literature.

Includes a video seminar on 8 DVDs and a spiral-bound syllabus. Suitable for teaching all levels.

Although this is meant to be teacher training, older students will enjoy viewing it too.

Need extra workbooks? See Item # 6337

From Institute for Excellence in Writing.

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Serving as both syllabus and workbook for the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style seminar, this essential resource also contains charts, word lists, sample lesson plans, and more. Purchase only if you already own or have access to the DVDs/video for the seminar—this Seminar and Practicum Workbook is designed to accompany the DVDs/video, rather than to be used as a stand-alone. From Institute for Excellence in Writing. Learn More

The Elegant Essay: Building Blocks for Analytical Writing. Now in its third edition, The Elegant Essay walks high school students through the entire essay-building process. The student book includes instruction, practice exercises, modeling, and grade sheets. The separate teacher's manual provides a sample schedule, grading helps, and lesson-by-lesson instructions regarding how to teach the material and includes sample models and answers. After practicing the elements of an essay, students apply all they have learned by completing two essay assignments: a descriptive and a persuasive essay. With clear explanations and practice exercises, The Elegant Essay is an excellent extension and refinement of IEW Unit 8. Consumable. Contains Christian Content. From Institute For Excellence in Writing (IEW.) Learn More

Advanced U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons [Teacher/Student Combo]

While writing about topics from U.S. history, from the Explorers to Modern Times, students will develop more advanced writing skills such as thesis statements, MLA format, persuasive essays, research papers, and more. This course is designed for students with at least one year of experience with IEW.

The Student Book contains assignments, instructions, engaging source texts, blank outlines, checklists, sample compositions, and clever vocabulary cards.

The Teacher's Manual includes creative lesson planning tips, vocabulary quizzes, and answer keys.

These lessons are designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style seminar (Item # 1743), either live or on DVD.

Perfect for homeschoolers, homeschool co-ops, tutors, and hybrid schools, this theme-based writing curriculum supports parents and teachers in teaching writing to high school students with prior experience in IEW. Suggested activities in Janice Campbell's Excellence in Literature: American Literature ( Item # 3674)are optional.

Note: The Student Resource Notebook is a necessary component of this course. This supplemental resource is included with your purchase as an e-book for you to download and print, or you may purchase it printed and spiral bound (Item # 0713).

Extra student books may be purchased Item # 2619.

For Grades 9-12. From IEW Institute for Excellence in Writing.

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This powerful and inspiring seminar will transform the way you teach writing to children (and perhaps your own writing as well)! You'll learn how to incrementally teach students to write with clear structure and compelling style. Begin with the basics—rewriting a paragraph—and continue all the way into advanced creative and essay writing. Learn how to nurture excellence in writing and thinking in students of any age

Whether your students are eager learners or reluctant writers, the award-winning Teaching Writing: Structure and Style video seminar will give you the tools you need to confidently teach your students to write well, think clearly, and express themselves eloquently and persuasively. Teachers or teaching parents of students in grades K–12 and beyond will learn how to effectively teach their students to outline and summarize, generate cohesive paragraphs, create stories ,produce reports and critiques, develop essays, translate their thoughts and ideas into writing, vary sentence structure, use interesting vocabulary, and add literary devices.</p>

This complete package includes twelve Forever Streaming* Videos : nine streaming videos of the entire Teaching Writing: Structure and Style teacher training course, providing instruction on the nine structural models and multiple stylistic techniques (14 hours total viewing time—may be watched all at once, or viewed one at a time throughout the school year) three streaming videos of sample Student Workshops at four different grade levels to help you with that first lesson

Premium Membership that allows you access to the following for one year from the date of activation: streaming video of the entire Teaching Writing: Structure and Style teacher training course streaming video of sample Student Workshops at four different grade levels to help you with that first lesson online Master Classes taught by Andrew Pudewa free access to our online the IEW Checklist Generator™ audio MP3 downloads of Andrew Pudewa’s most popular conference talks several PDF downloads content updated annually in July TWSS Seminar Workbook, which serves as the guide for the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style and contains charts, word lists, sample lesson plans, and more! *Forever Streaming is available from IEW.com as long as it is needed by the original purchaser. Nontransferable.

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IEW- Excellence in Literature by Janice Campbell. Updated 2nd Edition. This challenging, self-directed course introduces students to great American Literature in a chronological historical, literary, and artistic context, while developing skills in writing and literary analysis. During a large portion of this advanced high school course, students will gain maximum benefits as they perform in-depth research. Suggested prerequisites include: Teaching the Classics (item #3303), The Elegant Essay (item #5772), and Windows to the World: Introduction to Literary Analysis (item #3034). This course may be taken concurrently with Teaching the Classics-Worldview Supplement (item #5096). † Contains distinctly Christian content Learn More

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Students learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by: - Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics - Distinguishing similarities and differences - Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

The third and last of the Wordsmith series focuses on building, integrating, and polishing practical writing skills. This self-directed program allows students to take charge of their assignments and schedules. Strong in preparing the student for college, Part 1 addresses practical, everyday writing: notes, outlines, personal correspondence, summaries, business letters and reports. Part 2 focuses on the power of language: paragraphs (principles, types, and organization), writing techniques, and developing a personal writing style. Part 3 concentrates on essay writing: descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive essays. Wordsmith equips young adults for a lifetime of excellence in communication skills. From Common Sense Press. Learn More

Writing Strands Level 1 Book and CD. Very different from the rest of the Wrting Strands series, Writing Strands 1 is designed for families not yet writing. It has games, programs and projectsto help young children understand that words are not just things to use to get what they want, but that they can have fun with them. It is a way to have a family demonstrate its value of language use, to present to children models of behavior, and to have all the members of the family help convince the youngest members that the family they are part of loves creating and sharing through language. It consists of a manual of games and projects and an audio CD of examples, made by the author and his son, of what can be done for and with very young children. From National Writing Institute.

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Evaluating Writing is the teacher's manual to evaluating Writing Strands assignments. This manual addresses some concerns and conditions that cause children to fear and disdain writing, including: fear and insecurity, motivation, concentration, thinking through ideas, talking about mechanical problems, following directions, not wanting to edit, proofreading and what to do with a child that "just doesn't want to write". It has rough drafts, second drafts and finished papers written by homeschoolers using our exercises. Softcover, 96 pages, indexed. From National Writing Institute. Learn More

Challenging writing projects for homeschoolers. Designed for students of any age who have finished Writing Strands 6. These exercises expand on the same types of writing experiences as are found in Level 6 but present a much more sophisticated approach to writing. It is designed to give seventh level students (generally advanced high school students, if they haven't used Writing Strands) an introduction to the very complicated process of putting their thoughts in written form. This level covers moving chracters, organizing reports, describing for purpose, resolving conflicts, point of view, controlling readers, reporting of surveys, argumentative exposition, book report, scientific reports, interviewing, solving problems, emotional reactions, individualizing characters. From National Writing Institute. Learn More

The entire Building Thinking Skills® series provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 is comprised of two separate books – Figural and Verbal. The activities are developmentally sequenced. The Figural book of Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 teaches students to analyze relationships between objects in the semi-concrete (figural-spatial) form to develop the following skills: - Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics - Distinguishing similarities and differences - Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included, however, a separate Instruction/Answer Guide is also available but is not required. The optional teaching guide includes objectives and focus questions that reinforce analytical skills. See components sold separately above for ordering information about the separate, optional Instruction/Answer Guide. 288 pages. Perforated. From The Critical Thinking Company. Gr. 7-12+ Learn More

Author(s):  Robert Femiano

Hands-On Thinking Activities Teaching Fraction Fundamentals

This 64-page math book for Grades 2-4 uses fun, step-by-step lessons to provide a thorough foundation in understanding fractions. The book begins with the meaning of fractions and their many uses - and ends with the simple math of comparing, adding, and subtracting fractions both visually and numerically. These easy-to-understand, hands-on, thinking activities build confidence by providing an understanding of fractions that is relatable to daily life. This book includes cut-out fraction circles that enable teachers to demonstrate key concepts and provide students with a tactile experience to reinforce the lesson and aid in learning new concepts. Helpful teacher notes are provided along with clear explanations for answers.

SKILLS

• Meaning of fractions
• Writing and using fractions
• Finding common denominators
• Simple adding and subtracting of fractions

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Author:  Claire Saunders
Illustrator:  Neil Stevens

Featuring a showcase of the astounding sights that the US has to offer, Marvels of the USA offers games such as a Great Prismatic Hot Spring color-by-numbers, a Central Park spot-the-difference, and an Indianapolis word search. The engaging puzzles are sure to keep kids entertained for hours.

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Author:  Claire Saunders
Illustrator:  Thomas Paterson

Spirit of the USA is packed full of fun games and puzzles, such as a baseball picture sudoku, a president word search, a Thanksgiving spot-the-difference, and a triple-match state capitals game.

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Two activity pages per letter provide practice for writing the individual letter as well as words and a simple sentence in which the letter is used. A blank page with writing guides can be reproduced for additional practice.

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Use this customizable resource to help students dig deeper into the three modes—text, visual images, and design—picture books use to convey meaning and create a unique reading experience. This guide is organized by literary and visual elements. Each section includes teacher instructions that provide activity overviews, a quick guide that can serve as a primer on the element being examined, and writing and drawing prompts that offer students opportunities to respond to the book in ways of their choosing.

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By Laurie J Cousseau, Rhonda Graff

Games & Word Lists for Reading, Writing, and Word Study

Give children the phonics practice they need with this collection of decodable words, phrases, and sentences. These differentiated lists feature short vowels, blends and digraphs, inflectional endings, and more. Use the words to customize reproducible games and activities for fun and engaging practice. This book also includes assessments to check children's decoding, spelling, and vocabulary skills. A great addition to your phonics curriculum!

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By Jerome Martin, Illustrated by Marco Bonatti, Toby Newsome

Whether you want to dash off a limerick, ponder a sonnet or plot an epic poem, this write-in activity book is here to help. Each page is bursting with tips and inspiration for writing all kinds of poems – and inventing brand new styles too. With links to websites where you can listen to many of the poems in this book, and find more helpful writing tips.

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Implementing the Structure and Style® Method

Discover a wide variety of fascinating subjects in Discoveries in Writing! In this theme-based writing curriculum, students write about exciting topics such as the Bayeux Tapestry, tsunamis, Jerusalem and the Crusades, and other interesting subjects while they learn to write with the Structure and Style® writing method. Offering a full year of instruction for students in 4th grade, these lessons cover seven of the nine IEW Units. Literature suggestions and access to vocabulary cards and other helpful PDF downloads are included.

This book is designed to be used by an instructor who has been through or is currently viewing the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style video course.

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Implementing the Structure and Style® Method

Discover a wide variety of fascinating subjects in Discoveries in Writing! In this theme-based writing curriculum, students write about exciting topics such as the Bayeux Tapestry, tsunamis, Jerusalem and the Crusades, and other interesting subjects while they learn to write with the Structure and Style® writing method. Offering a full year of instruction for students in 4th grade, these lessons cover seven of the nine IEW Units. Literature suggestions and access to vocabulary cards and other helpful PDF downloads are included. Purchase the Teacher’s Manual and Student Book together and save!

 This book is designed to be used by an instructor who has been through or is currently viewing the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style video course.

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